Chlopsis longidens
Species of fish
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Chlopsis longidens is an eel in the family Chlopsidae.[2] It was described by Samuel Garman in 1899, originally under the genus Atopichthys.[3] It is known from a single leptocephalus specimen collected from between Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, in the central eastern Pacific Ocean. From that specimen. the species is known to dwell in a tropical, marine climate at a maximum depth of 3,184 m.[2] The specimen may possibly be a larval bicolor false moray (Chlopsis bicollaris).[2]
| Chlopsis longidens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Chlopsidae |
| Genus: | Chlopsis |
| Species: | C. longidens |
| Binomial name | |
| Chlopsis longidens (Garman, 1899) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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